
Top 1% of Professional Nappers, Supreme Warlord @UpsideDownVC 🇨🇳🇬🇧🇺🇸
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Joined December 2019
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hi! we just launched SF + LA Tech Week and it’s crazy to say (I know I say this every time) but it really is true - it’s the biggest one yet. we’ve broken more records and now have 1,500+ events, over 2x last year’s launch!
SF Tech Week: Oct 6-12
LA Tech Week: Oct 13-19
Register for events here: tech-week.com/calendar
SF is on fire, on track to be home to the biggest Tech Week. When we first started @Techweek_, it was right after COVID, and we saw so many founders relocating outside the Bay Area to cities all over the US. That first year, SF Tech Week was actually the smallest. This year, it’s set to be the largest. We’ve doubled the number of SF events at launch year over year, a clear signal showing just how much the AI wave is fueling the city’s growth. And this is shaping up to be *the* week for tech in the city.
LA was home to the very first Tech Week, and it’s special for me to see how much it’s grown. What makes LA unique is the mix of industries here. We’re seeing two in particular take off - AI in entertainment and deep tech. The best part is how the ecosystem really comes together around Tech Week to champion the city, with so many LA investors and GPs hosting.
One of the biggest pieces of feedback we’ve heard from attendees is that now that Tech Week has gotten so big, we need more ways to discover events most relevant to you. So, this year we’ve put together curated tracks: future of work in SF, entertainment in LA, investor-focused events, hard tech, fintech, hackathons, and more.
So excited to be hosting Founders & Investors Tea Tasting with Assenteo and Root Tea at SF Tech Week 2025! The event page link will be in the comments down below. #SFTechWeek @techweek_.
Jonathan Sun - Founder UpsideDown VC xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1kvKpylPe…
jon retweeted
Replying to @tkexpress11 @midjourney
By VC standards we should either "conquer the world or die in a fire" and neither of these are spiritually compelling for me. I never wanted a company I just wanted a home. At this point we have a large and loyal paid community, we build tons of features for them (I think we did >30 releases this year) and they're pretty happy. We have enough revenue to fund tons of crazy R&D and our models are still the best by the metrics we care about (how the images look and how fun it is to make things). We have a huge backlog of exciting things to make our models way better. Zero risk. We did all this with no investors. Honestly, it feels like we are successful. The next metric of success I think about most about is now that we have "all I ever wanted" in terms of a big well funded R&D lab with cool people free to work on whatever we want... Can we now build something that would make baby David proud? And can we tell bold stories about a human future that people want to be a part of? I think we can.
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Join @JonathanYSun1 & I on a live @NVPod episode w/ @adsinuk today Friday Nov 24 at 6pm GMT as we freestyle hot & spicy takes on the current state of play in VC, [Open]AI (duh), & what the future holds for Tiger Global, Softbank & Africa VC youtube.com/live/3hXjmWRGKwo…
Bring questions
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At the EY Growth conference today, sitting between 2 founders both building tech enabled products. 1 bootstrapped to $20m in revenue and 1 to $30m. No VCđź’°Wow!
Asked them how? Credit card debt + spun out of an agency.
More and more convinced that VC is not the way for most…
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“Capital Entrepreneurs”
Fantastic convo b/w @keithkcvc & @tylertringas on taking a different approach to funding entrepreneurs.
“We can wait for the right partner/s to come along that are aligned w/ what we're trying to do rather than square peg round hole it w/ what folks want to see.” - @tylertringas on strategic patience & readying @calmfund for institutional capital
Listen & follow! Link in comments.
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I’m yet to find a capital allocator who doesn’t want this future, they just don’t yet know how to invest in it.
We now need the LP ecosystem to scale with the rising GP ecosystem.
blog.innovative.finance/p/10…
Tl:Dr- we're excited bc:
(1) It provides an “all in one solution” for electric vehicle ownership with maximum convenience for the consumer.
(2) It will gain a customer facing place in a burgeoning market (who can buy cars outright in today's market?).
Link in the original post.
We're excited to support Voltric, a flexible subscription platform for electric cars. Link down in the comments for the article on why.
horizanvc.substack.com/p/air…
#investing #startups #venturecapital
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Re alt funding mechanisms and investing:
“It’s not [the founder’s] job to meet us on the financial terms, it’s our job to meet them on the human terms”
Great episode @keithkcvc & @jam_finney
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Big shout to @tobyallen007 and @Geoo993 for putting this together.
BO will simultaneously make it easier for founders to submit their decks, and for us to be analysing cool deals that are coming through.
Check it out and let us know what you think. Links down below.
A bit late, but we've finally released the first version of our operating system, Blueocean!
Some founders have already had a chance to play with it, but we believe that this has the potential to be game-changing for us.
horizanvc.substack.com/p/how…
jon retweeted
Had a great time watching @sama in London yesterday! Thanks to @TheOxfordGuild and @CliffordChnce for setting it up. Met lots of new faces and bumped into @JonathanYSun1 there too 🙏
#London #Tech #Startups
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We're wrapping up fundraising on our @ChisosCapital Fund II in a few months
We've made 41 investments
We have equity markups
We have cash flow
We've sent distributions back to investors
We've catalyzed follow on investments
We built something new and it's working
If you don't like reading long articles about our value prop, watch this instead
Watch our founder, @JonathanYSun1 give a reverse pitch to a group of 50+ founders at @Pitchflixtv's Reverse Pitch Event!
vimeo.com/822892620/c1e78f22…
#reversepitch #venturecapital #investing #founders
To summarize what I wrote:
The best founders are great at swing decision-making. What does this exactly mean though?
horizanvc.substack.com/p/swi…
#investing #startups #venturecapital #decisionmaking

















